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It’s not under my incision it’s above my belly button? I was fine yesterday. This is new. Since it’s new should I worry? 10 days post op.

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For me, I took an adult dose of milk of magnesia and had a bowel movement. The pain went away afterwards.

Check your heart rate. If it’s above 120, go to the ER. If it’s between 100-120, call your doctor and see what they recommend you do. If it’s below 100, then it’s just the bowel movement and could be your muscles healing.


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Thank you for that. Very helpful! I think it must be muscular. I’ve had small bowel movements but I’ve just began taking a med my gastro prescribed & my Probiotics. I’m gonna give it a cpl days, try to be more mindful of my movements & see if it fixes itself. Back to work today. No time for down time! 🤢


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9 hours ago, hanoon said:

For me, I took an adult dose of milk of magnesia and had a bowel movement. The pain went away afterwards.

Check your heart rate. If it’s above 120, go to the ER. If it’s between 100-120, call your doctor and see what they recommend you do. If it’s below 100, then it’s just the bowel movement and could be your muscles healing.

Yeah ur pain is a mystery, right? Everyone’s different, duh.

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It’s not under my incision it’s above my belly button? I was fine yesterday. This is new. Since it’s new should I worry? 10 days post op.


I had the exact same pain, mine went away after a couple of weeks. My friend who had her gallbladder removed had the same pain, it has something to do with the muscles there. It feels like you’ve done 1000 sit-ups


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